Wind turbines are beautiful

I note your correspondent in the Bracknell Standard of 23 October denies accelerating global warming by claiming that data published by the University of Illinois shows an increase in ice in the northern hemisphere. Please can he give us the exact scientific reference. I cannot find it and I need to check the claim.



In contrast the Stern Review (2006), Al Gore’s DVD An Inconvenient Truth (2006), the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Scientific Assessment Report (2007) and Gabrielle Walker & Sir David King’s book The Hot Topic (2008) all show that the ice is decreasing at an alarming rate as one of the many effects of climate change. The very recent research by Dr Kevin Anderson at the UK government-funded Tyndall Centre, however, shows that global warming is happening even faster than previously thought by my four references above. He says the politicians of the world have only a few months left to act or else it will be too late to prevent runaway climate change rubbing out most, or all, human life.



For the last 20 years the global scientific community has been unanimous in its pessimism. I’m sorry but I cannot help being very worried, not for myself but for my grandchildren. They are entitled to a full life, not one ruined by the lethargy of our generation over the last 10 years, continuing into the next decade. This is the most important crisis that the human race has ever faced. Yet the politicians do very little, being mainly concerned to win the next election for themselves.



To avoid runaway global warming, we need to burn much less fossil fuel and use renewable sources of energy instead. For the good that they do our planet, I think wind turbines are beautiful. After all humankind has been using nature’s windstrength for thousands of years.



David Young

The Green Party General Election candidate for Bracknell.